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Trail looks to future

Revitalization and beautification of the Gulch

GREAT STAFF... Pharmasave Drugs i the heart of downtown Castlegar (below) has a friendly and courteous staff (above and below left) to serve the store’s customers. At right is Mary-Lou

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drugstore with a pharmacy, a toy department, cosmetics, gifts and cards

Pharmasave offers more than 37 years of service. Current owner Tom Biln, who started with the drugstore in 1969 whgn it was still Castlegar Drugs, continues the tradition of fine service

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The City of Trail can now look ahead to-its future and good forturie and not waste time with ‘what has been or might have been.”’

The economy is stable — most communities in Canada would be envious of the long-term investment being made by a major employer, The Community Economic Action Committee, the Business Develop- ment Centre, the Community Futures Society and the Business Industry Committee all work on behalf of present and new businesses plus the promotion of spor ting events

The Community Futures Society is to receive $1.55 million in federal money under the Community Futures

MARC MARCOLIN ... West Trail approach needed

Initiatives Fund towards a community centre and to create a business enterprise centre to provide technical services in an environment conducive to growth

The major question presently facing the city is when will the West Trail approach be completed? The approach is a two-mil&sttetch of highway that would replace the present steep and treacherous Smelter Hill

Mayor Mare Marcolin now has the full government support for early completion of the project. Ten other projects — municipal, regional and industrial — are dependent on, or associated-with, completion of the highway, all of which should proceed as soon as the goverment announces the necessary funding

“We need the West Trail approach, no question about that,"’ Marcolin said.

can’t go ahead to any major extent until the government allocates funds fox completion of the approach. What it wants is to get the highway reduced to two lanes from four lanes for a distance of less than a mile to allow space to widen existing narrow sidewalks. Once this is done, the Gulch will get new lighting, planters and benches. To complete the revitalization, older buildings still in good condition will be restored to their original brick or rich wood. In many cases, this is accomplished by first removing false fronts. The city already is identifying suitable buildings.

The City of Trail hasn't a lot of room to expand, although there is additional space im the Miral Heights area. Instead of concentrating on what the city hasn't got, concentration must be on building a better quality of life and service, so the people who live in and around Trail can haye good shopping and good recreation in pleasant surroundings.

Trail is entering into a major revitalization of the downtown core.

“The major change is the Greater Trail Com munity Centre (formerly the Trail Junior High),"” Mar colin said

Selkirk College, an excellent tenant, moved into the building in September. The Centre will be a place for all ages and interests. It will also include a Seniors’ Drop-in Centre, a Youth Centre, a theatre for the performing ar ts, acentre for arts.and craftsanda multi-purpose hall.

The city has a new Dairy Queen on the old hospital site, which has been vacant for over 33 years. One by one, other vacant lots are being acquired, Several businesses have-got into the revitalization swing by Upgrading existing facilities With major paint jobs, renovations or building complete new facilities such as the Bay Avenue Beer Garden adjacent to the Arlington Hotel, the Crown Point Beer and Wine Shop, the Midland Doherty building and the new Home Har dware on Waneta Road

‘With the help of many volunteers, organizations and businesses, Trail is making great strides. The city has organized clean-up campaigns to get rid of unsightly areas

‘eople judge a city by what they see," Marcolin said, ‘*If they see old cars and rubbish, they think we're adump of acity.”’

The new image will include beautifying the banks of the Columbia River with parks and walkways. Com pletion of the paint job on the bridge already adds a high note

The 4,000 or so retirees in the Greater Trail area in

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vest about $25 million a year into the economy. Trail recognizes that seniors are opting to stay in the area. In 1988, seniors over 65 made up 14 per cent of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary population The seniors are an important factor in the plans to im prove Trail’s quality of life

Not too far down the road, the city must look at a

“number of important issut$, suchas its water supply and

distribution system. In the downtown area, the city will také-a serious look at construction of a néw fire hall, Columbia River development, and renovations to City Hall

The Memorial Centre needs renovating — that will come — also a decision on the library. Downtown parking has to beimproved and is being addressed

Every city has an unending list of priorities and Trail is no exception. Day-to-day administration is competently handled by city manager Ken Wiesner, city clerk Jamie Forbes and city treasurer Victor Kumar, plusa staff of 75

Marcolin and council, Norm Barry, Dieter Bogs, Gord DeRosa, Jim Halpin, Jerry Paul, and Sandy San- tori, work for the long-term interests of the community and for Trail’s positive future.

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ominco continues to modernize

The Trail lead smelter modernization project, 01 TLSM for short, is a $130-million project intended to replace Cominco’s aging sintering plant, blast furnaces and drossing plant with state of the art technology

“his is not-an-expansion-of our lead smelting capacity,"* says Cominco spokesman Richard Fish. ‘It is intended to get us back to our historical production capacity of 160,000 tons, which is what the present smelter used to be capable of. Now its capacity is only about 135,000 tons, because of equipment wear and process inefficiencies in the old plant

The heart of the new oxygen smelting process is a reactor, which is simply a huge 135-foot-long by-15 foot-diameter brick-lined cylinder made out of one-inch thick, heat resistant steel

The lead reactor is divided into two parts inside, the oxidation zone and the reduction zone. The lead con centrates and additives are fed raw into the oxidation zone through feed ports in thetop of the reactor

At the same time, a large amount of oxygen is being blown into the bottom of the oxidation zone, causing a heat-producing reaction in which the feed is almost in stantly melted and the sulphur in the concentrate becomes sulphur dioxide gas.

The bullion, or impure molten lead, sinks to the bottom of the oxidation zone and is tapped out

The environrnental benefits of the new smelter are significant, Fish says

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Two construction workers (left) at Cominco’s Trail smelter modernization project look down ata segment of thenew 135-foot-long reactor which is the heart of the new oxygen smeiting process. Atright,= bundle of zinc slabs is wrapped in plastic to ensure delivery in mint condition to a distant market.

First of all, we will be able to meet government standards with regard to lead for the in-plant at- mosphere,”” he says. ‘Secondly, we will almost eliminate smoke from the Trail operations.””

The~frequent—air—inversions—that—form—in_the Columbia Valley overnight trap the smoke from the lead stack and may cause sulphur dioxide to build up to unacceptable levels

“When that starts to happen, our waste control department orders the smelter and the roasters to cut back, or even cease operations in some cases, until con, ditions improve,” Fish says

The new smelter will pretty well solve this problem It will produce a low volume of high-strength sulphur dioxide gas that will be treated in the $40 million sulphur gas handling system Cominco compléted.a few years ago as part of the earlier phase of modernization

The result is that the zine’stack, the one near the highway, will be the smelter’s main stack.-The old lead stack near the river, will be obsolete. No smoke will come fromit

We expect to see some increase in the white plume from the zinc stack, but the days of smoke-filled inver sions will be over,” Fish says The air inversions are a natural phenomenon that

will always be there, but we won't have the irritation of smoke added to them.”*

Cominco is still on target for completion in mid- September for the TLSM project as whole, he says.